If you could bring back some things from the past, what would it be?

Question

I would like more city parks with trees, benches and fountains to visit and enjoy without homeless people taking them over.
I would also like to see the unique architecture that buildings use to have. I don't think the ones today have much character.

Answer 1

THE FAMILY

With Dad at the head and Mom not working but home nurturing the kids. Once the family is intact, everything else will fall into place.

Everyone home for the family dinner. Siblings caring for one another. Keeping the Sabbath Holy.

One Nation under God.

Answer 2

Gas that cost 19 cents a gallon. And probably a mint condition 1967 Pontiac Firebird with a nice Detroit muscle engine. I'd also keep the 1959 Fender Stratocaster I sold for $600 - now it would be worth in the tens of thousands of dollars given the condition that it was in. I'd also like to be in the physical condition I was in when I could run long distance, and there are some ladies I'd like to "visit" again... ;)

Answer 3

Trust. When I was young we didn't even lock the house when we left. I'm still in that house now and I don't let my grandchildren play outside without an adult being there. I live in a very rural area....yet its like this. I also miss all the little Mom and Pop stores that was within walking distance of every part of the neighborhoods in the area......all the kids walked to the stores for penny candy. Now...same neighborhood......have to drive to Sheetz.

Answer 4

Even though I'm not a senior, I love to visit here to see if I can maybe help the senior citizens here and I would like to see it when a person's word is there bound come back again because in this age of technology it is too easy for someone to lie about themselves and then be like "oh well".

Answer 5

Family values.
As I read in a posted question today.
the kids wear clothes that only hoochie mamas [ Ho's] should wear.
children tell their parents what to do and where to go.
There are no rules for young people.
And courtesy to your elders is a thing of the past.
Most children are begging for some form of discipline but their parents are clueless.
OMG- I sound like my mother.

Answer 6

I would like to see the return of better manners and more respect, and perhaps the decency to be ashamed of certain things. I would like the return of a proper concern for our responsibilities as opposed to just our "rights," especially when it seems that our concern for our rights are often in a total disregard for those of others. I would like to see the return of an age when everything did not seem to evolve around money. I would like to see the return of a better sense of community, as opposed to everyone running off to join, and be a part of, his own separate little group.

Answer 7

front porches
neighborhoods that care
mom and pop store where when you walk in they know your name and all about your family and ask how they are doing.
when i was a kid my sister was walking home from school because she was not feeling well . she felt this car driving real slow behind her she got scared so she went up to the next house and walked in the women there ask her what was happening and she told her. the women called my mom and then walk her the rest of the way home.. then the next day she came by with some soup and to tell my mom that there was a man that was found looking for kids to take.. i got 100 of stories like this i could tell ya.. tell me how many kids could just walk in a home today and get help??
mom and pop eateries( what food they had)
soda fountain..
a 5 cent ice cream cone that was so big you could hardly eat it all..
the news and then a cartoon before the movie
no busing kid to schools that take over a hr to get there and back..
but most of all letting kid be kids.. i love being a kid field trips with out all the fuss.. being in a parade with out set belts on everyone..i could on and on with this one
swimming holes with out the health department
Halloween i love this Holiday
unlocked Churches
doctors that make house callers
well have to give everyone else a change to answer.. i love my life as a kid and young man. it not as fun now.. and for my grand-kids they will never know the joy of being free.

last one have a parade with out having to go thought the police to find out if it OK.. ever 4 of July we would dress up and get our wagon's and march down the street with our flags right down main street.. and everyone would stop and cheer..

Answer 8

The soda shop by the movie where we could dance, dinner on the grounds on Sunday at church, black and white loafers, boys with there hair combed in a wave, but most of all my mom and dad.

Answer 9

well, I can tell you what I don't want to see...much easier:

Cheaper prices...that would mean serious reduction of salary
Autos: Oil changes every 2k mile, tires that lasted 10K miles
TV's: Old, bulky, ugly things that had more snow than picture
hay rides: I always ended up itchy as hell after one of these
High school: We were all lost in a sea of adolescence.
Virginity concept: screwed up more people than it helped

Bring back (won't happen) Drive in movies, sock hops.
Bring back (wont' happen) My mom.
Bring back (could happen) Parenting skills and interaction
Bring Back (could happen) educated HS graduates.

Answer 10

Grace...
The grace of a doffed hat
The grace of a gloved hand shake
The grace of the flowing gowns [some before my time, but they were so beautiful]
The grace of manors
The grace of caring for one another [even the strangers] in your town.
The grace of referring to where you lived as a town... even the Big Cities.
The grace of meals taken with care... and the giving of grace to begin.

I could go on, but I won't because there are many things I like about now, too.

Jackie, I loved your response.